Hammond

Hammond, Henry (1605-1660), an English divine, was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he was elected a fellow in 1625. He became rector of Penshurst, Kent, in 1633, and Archdeacon of Chichester in 1643. In 1645 he was appointed chaplain to Charles I., whom he attended in the Isle of Wight. His chief work was his Paraphrase of Annotations on the New Testament (1653).